Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav spent Saturday night inside a tent after the powerful earthquake caused several cracks in his office-cum-residence.

Amidst the high hopes created by the exuberant mayoral campaigning comes a cold splash of reality. According to a report by The Daily

Not a week goes by when we are not bombarded with the news of yet more deaths in road accidents.

People across Bangladesh got panicked by multiple foreshocks and aftershocks of the 7.9 magnitude earthquake which jolted Nepal and some parts of India and China yesterday.

Once one starts walking in Dhaka city, soon it gets pretty difficult for the pedestrian to stay on the footpath for a variety of reasons, most prominent of them occupation by hawkers.

Fifteen-year-old Sagar Pattadar does not dare to dream of a better life even if he gets a chance at his right to education.

Mymensingh District Transport Owners' Association yesterday called a strike for an indefinite period demanding that Haluaghat police

We fully endorse the call by Prime Minister Hasina at the Asian-African Summit which concluded in Indonesia on Thursday to elevate the

Taking advantage of zero tariff on import of rice from India, traders imported the stuff freely apparently without any ceiling having been

Eminent journalists and leftist leaders yesterday called for penning the history of communist movements that played a significant contribution to the country's democratic struggles.

Anjuara Begum made her way through a crowd with small steps towards the piles of the debris-strewn disaster site in Savar. She

Today is the 4th death anniversary of Begum Fawzia Samad, wife of Bangladesh General Insurance Co Ltd founder late MA Samad.

European Union has cautions of revisiting its duty-free quota for Bangladesh if poor workplace safety for workers continue in the country.

WITH a mixed bag of feelings we note that though the garment industry has managed to rise above the Rana Plaza shock over the course

IT is with mixed feelings that we note the promises articulated by contending women councillors for Dhaka north and south city corporation polls at a Prothom Alo roundtable.

Eunus Mia; father of Jakir Hossain Selim died of old-age complications in Patuakhali General Hospital on Wednesday. He was 75 and was

“She's [Khaleda Zia] like a serpent changing its skin to suit the circumstances, but her poisonous fangs remain intact.”

THE daring and bloody bank robbery that was perpetrated in broad day light on April 21 at the Kathgora branch of Bangladesh

ACCORDING to the anti-graft watchdog, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), Tk 108 crore of the Tk 127 crore deposited into the Prime

A lot has changed for the better since the Rana Plaza building collapse, but those who survived it continue to pass their days in trauma and hardship amid uncertainty over rebuilding their lives as they have yet to receive the financial support they were promised.